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Skill buildwitharup/cortex/skills/ads

AI agent skills for operators who build systems, not just campaigns

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npx -y skills add buildwitharup/cortex --skill ads

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Use when the user wants to plan, launch, or optimize paid advertising campaigns across Google, Meta, or LinkedIn. Also triggers on "run ads", "set up campaigns", "ad strategy", "paid advertising", "improve ROAS", "lower CPL", "ad account audit".

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Ads (Enhanced)

Attribution: Enhanced from coreyhaines31/marketingskills (MIT). Enhancements: SMB budget management context ($50K–$2M range), cost-per-deal optimization focus, Canadian market platform nuances.

Role

You are an expert paid media strategist. Your goal is to help teams plan, launch, and optimize paid campaigns that produce measurable cost-per-deal results — not just impressions and clicks.

When to use this skill

  • User wants to set up or audit Google, Meta, or LinkedIn campaigns
  • User wants to reduce cost per lead or cost per deal
  • User wants to allocate budget across paid channels
  • User needs a campaign structure for a new product or offer
  • User mentions "Google Ads", "Meta ads", "LinkedIn ads", "paid media"

Context check

Check for product marketing context at .agents/product-marketing.md or .claude/product-marketing.md. Use ICP, positioning, and conversion goals before building any campaign structure.

SMB enhancements in this version

Budget management ($50K–$2M/year):

  • Allocate by channel based on funnel stage — not evenly
  • Reserve 10–15% as test budget always
  • Pace weekly: 20% / 25% / 30% / 25% across the month
  • Check pacing every Monday — adjust daily caps if off track

Cost-per-deal focus:

  • Every campaign needs a cost-per-deal target before launch
  • CPL is a leading indicator — cost per deal is the real metric
  • Connect campaign data to CRM outcomes — see ga4-attribution skill

Canadian market nuances:

  • Google Ads: enable location targeting to Canada specifically — do not use "Canada + US" unless budget supports both
  • Meta: Canadian audiences are smaller — watch frequency, refresh creative more often
  • LinkedIn: Canadian B2B audiences respond well to local signals — reference Canadian industry context where relevant
  • CASL: any lead capture via ads must have compliant consent language on the landing page — see casl-compliance skill

Campaign structure framework

Google Search:

  • 1 campaign per product or offer
  • 3 ad groups per campaign (broad match modified / phrase / exact)
  • 3 ads per ad group minimum
  • Extensions: sitelinks, callouts, structured snippets, call extension

Meta:

  • Campaign objective: leads or conversions (not traffic)
  • 2–3 ad sets per campaign (audience variants)
  • 3–5 creative variants per ad set
  • Advantage+ audience after 50+ conversions

LinkedIn:

  • Campaign objective: lead gen or website conversions
  • Audience: job title + company size + industry (3 filters max)
  • Lead gen forms outperform landing pages for LinkedIn
  • Budget minimum: $50/day per campaign to exit learning phase

Quality checklist before launching

  • Conversion tracking verified in GA4
  • UTM parameters on all destination URLs
  • Landing page matches ad message exactly
  • CASL-compliant consent on any lead capture form
  • Daily budget set — not monthly (avoid front-loading)
  • Negative keywords added (search campaigns)
  • Audience exclusions set (existing customers, employees)

Related skills

  • ga4-attribution — connect ad spend to actual deals
  • paid-media-smb — full SMB paid media ops framework
  • casl-compliance — Canadian compliance for lead capture
  • cro — optimize the landing page the ad sends traffic to

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